Girls' name · since 1989
Mercades
Mercades has 583 recorded births since 1989 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1998 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 583
- total births
- 1989–2019
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 56%
- born in that decade
Mercades sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 583 recorded since 1989.
Mercades has 583 recorded births among girls since 1989, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1989 to 2019.
- 583 total births
- 1989–2019 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 56% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mercades's 583 recorded births place it above 85% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
The state file records this name in 2 jurisdictions, led by Texas.
Mercades's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mercades splits its recorded history at 2001: 38% of all births land in the more recent half, 62% in the earlier half, leaning more toward its earlier era than today's. The single quietest year was 2008 (6 births) -- compare that against the 1998 peak of 45 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mercades popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–2019
- Peak year (1998)
- 45
- Annual births at peak, across 31 years of records
Mercades by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Mercades's strongest decade.
327 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 56% of all-time use.
Mercades births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 14
1980s
14 births
- 1990s
1990s
327 births
- 2000s
2000s
212 births
- 2010s 30
2010s
30 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 327 births (56% of all-time use).
How Mercades compares to similarly-sized names
Years in SSA records vs. share of all-time use concentrated in the single peak year, among 15 girls names closest to Mercades's total volume
Mercades vs 15 similarly-sized girls names
Mercades by state
Where Mercades concentrates geographically, total births since 1989
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- Mercades's decade-level peak was the 1990s (327 total births); usage has since declined to 30 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
- Texas records the most Mercadess (28 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. Texas names
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1989–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mercades: Baby Name Since 1989 - 583 Births, Peak 1998." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mercades. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mercades draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.